A boon for all film music fans everywhere, this rare live recording features many legendary screen composers (Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, Bernard Herrman, Dimitri Tiomkin, et al.), conducting the themes from their most famous scores, including How The West Was Won, Ben Hur, North By Northwest, High Noon and many more! This CD version contains six previously unreleased tracks.
Jonathan Meades' shows are unlike anyone else's. They belong to a genre of their own. They are heavy entertainment. They combine topographical analysis with performance art, high seriousness with low comedy, visual trickery with hymns to the overlooked, polemical argument with scathing wit. They take you to places you'll never have been before - most of them located in the byways of Meades' imagination. They show how the world seems to him and they may even persuade you to look again…
WWII’s Greatest Raids is a series that takes you into the heart of an elite band of soldiers in the heat of a key action in their history, and follows them on the mission to show just how these men put their unique combination of skills, training and equipment to the test of combat. We’ll explore just how celebrated outfits such as the U.S. Army Rangers, the British Special Air Service and the Black Devil Brigade have changed the course of a battle, or perhaps even a war, through their courage, daring and commitment.